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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Last Mile for Paper Submission
by Announce Announcements 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

*** LAST MILE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) "Making Personalization Transparent: Giving control back to the User" Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Abstracts due: January 25, 2019 (mandatory) Papers due: February 1, 2019 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE ACM UMAP, "User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization", is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. This include (but is in no way limited to) a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation, recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more. This year the conference hosts three new tracks, one on privacy and fairness, one on personalized music access, and one on personalized health. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS · Marios Avraamides, University of Cyprus · Judith Masthoff, Utrecht University · Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke, Spotify London CONFERENCE TRACKS Track 1 - Personalized Recommender Systems Chairs: Marko Tkalcic, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, marko.tkalcic(a)unibz.it Alan Said, University of Skövde, alansaid(a)acm.org Personalized, computer-generated recommendations have become a pervasive feature of today's online world. The underlying recommender systems are designed to help users and providers in a number of ways. >From a user's viewpoint, for example, these systems assist consumers in finding relevant things within large item collections. On the other hand, from a provider's perspective, recommenders have also shown to be valuable tools to steer consumer behavior. From a technical perspective, the design of such systems requires the careful consideration of various aspects, including the choice of the user modeling approach, the underlying recommendation algorithm, and the user interface. This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss open challenges, latest solutions and novel research approaches in the field of recommender systems. Besides the above-mentioned technical aspects, works are also particularly welcome that address questions related to the user perception and the business value of recommender systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Recommendation algorithms · Recommender and personalization system evaluation · User modeling and preference elicitation · Users' perception of recommender systems · Business value of recommendation systems and multi-stakeholder environments · Explanations and trust · Context-aware recommendation algorithms · Recommending to groups of users · Case studies of real-world implementations · Novel, Psychology-informed User- and Item-modeling Track 2 - Adaptive Hypermedia And The Semantic Web Chairs: Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it Katrien Verbert, KU Leuven, katrien.verbert(a)cs.kuleuven.be Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web explore alternatives to the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach in the development of web and hypermedia systems. Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web systems build a model of the interests, preferences and knowledge of each individual user, and use this model in order to adapt the behavior of hypermedia and web systems to the needs of that user. Semantic web frequently serves as an infrastructure to enable adaptive and personalized Web systems. Semantic web technology targets the use of explicit semantics and metadata to help web systems perform the desired functionality: this implies the use of linked data from the web, the use of ontologies in models, or the use of metadata in user interfaces, as well as the use of ontologies for information integration. This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open research problems, solid solutions, latest challenges, novel applications and innovative research approaches in adaptive hypermedia and semantic web. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Web user profiles · Adaptive navigation support · Personalized search · Web content adaptation · Analytics of web user data · Adaptive web sites and portals · Adaptive books and textbooks · Social navigation and social search · Navigation support in continuous media and virtual environments · Usability engineering for adaptive hypermedia and web systems · Novel methodologies for evaluating adaptive hypermedia and web systems · Semantic Web technologies for web personalization · Ontology-based data access and integration/exchange on the adaptive web · Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the adaptive web · Ontology-based user models · Semantic social network mining, analysis, representation, and management · Crowdsourcing semantics; methods, dynamics, and challenges · Semantic Web and Linked Data for adaptation Track 3 - Intelligent User Interfaces Chairs: Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, lichen(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk Jingtao Wang, Google, jingtaow(a)acm.org Intelligent User Interfaces aim to improve the interaction between computer systems and human users by means of Artificial Intelligence. The systems support and complement different types of abilities that are normally unavailable in the context of human-only cognition. Previous work has found that humans do not always make the best possible decisions when working together with computer systems. By designing and deploying improved forms of support for interactive collaboration between human decision makers and systems, we can enable decision making processes that better leverage the strengths of both collaborators. More generally this research track can be characterized by exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, which may leverage solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Adaptive personal virtual assistants (e.g., interaction with robots) · Adapting natural interaction (e.g., natural language, speech, gesture) · Intelligent user interfaces based on sensor data (UIs for cars, fridges, etc.) · Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological info, etc.) · Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces · Smart environments and tangible computing · Transparency and control of decision support systems (e.g., semi-autonomous systems) · Explainable intelligent user interfaces · Affective and aesthetic interfaces · Tailored persuasion and argumentation interfaces · Tailored decision support (e.g., over- and under-reliance in uncertain domains) · Adaptive information visualization · Scalability of intelligent user interfaces to access huge datasets · User-centric studies of interactions with intelligent user interfaces · Novel datasets and use cases for intelligent user interfaces · Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces Track 4 - Personalized Social Web Chairs: Ilaria Torre, University of Genova, ilaria.torre(a)unige.it Osnat Mokryn, omokryn(a)univ.haifa.ac.il The social web is continuously growing and social platforms are a fundamental part of our life. Mediated communication is becoming the primary form of communication for young people, and adults follow in increasing numbers. Online communication is increasingly enriched by the use of memes, pictures, audio and video, though language (textual and oral) remains a fundamental tool with which people interact, convey their opinions, construct and determine their social identity. Lifelogging data (e.g., health, fitness, food) is growing as well on the social web. This type of personal information source, gathered for private use through personal devices, is now often shared in online communities. These trends open new challenges for research: how to harness the power of collective intelligence and quantified self data in online social platforms to identify social identities, how to exploit continuous feedback threads, and how to improve the individual user experience on the social web. We invite original submissions addressing all aspects of personalization, user models building and personal experience in online social systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Personalization of the web experience in social systems · Adaptations based on personality, society, and culture · Personalization algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies · Social recommendation · Identifying social identities in social media · Social and crowd-generated data for adaptation · Personalized information retrieval · Exploiting quantified self data on the social web of things · Data-driven approaches for personalization · Modeling individuals, groups, and communities · Collective intelligence and experience mining · Pattern and behaviour discovery in social network analysis · Opinion mining for user modeling · Sentiment analysis · Topic modeling for online conversations and short texts · Privacy, perceived security, and trust in social systems · Ethical issues involved in studying the social web · User awareness and control · Evaluation methodologies for the social web Track 5 - Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning Chairs: Jesús G. Boticario, UNED, jgb(a)dia.uned.es Inge Molenaar, Radboud University, i.molenaar(a)pwo.ru.nl At large there is an on-going "fusion" between humans and technological systems. The ongoing integration of devices into our daily lives furthers the integration of technology in human learning. With technology increasingly gaining more data and intelligence, a new era of technology-enhanced adaptive learning is emerging. Consequently, the interactions between learners, teachers and technology are becoming increasingly complex. Learning is a positioned as a complex human process that involves cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, affective and psychomotor aspects which interact with the learning context. Smart technological solutions are increasingly able to identify and model the learner needs on these five aspects and accordingly provide personalized support that can improve the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of learning experiences. Current research in artificial intelligence combined with data science and learning analytics bring new opportunities to recognize, and effectively support individual learners' needs and orchestrate collaborate and classroom learning with intelligent learning solutions, and augment teachers in blended learning situations. The aim of this track is to foreground the systematic complexity of human learning and use systematic analytic approaches to measure, diagnose and support human learning with technologies. This covers not only formal educational settings, but also lifelong learning requirements (including workplace training) as well as the acquisition of skills informal learning settings (e.g., in daily activities, serious games, sports, healthcare, wellbeing, etc.). To address the wide spectrum of modeling issues and challenges that can be raised, contributions from various research areas are welcome. Therefore, this track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to present their innovative adaptive learning solutions, share acquired experience, and discuss the main modeling challenges for technology enhanced adaptive learning. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Domain, learner, teacher and context modeling · Modeling cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, affective and psychomotor aspects of learning · Diagnosis of learner needs and calibration of support and feedback Adaptive and personalized support for learning · Dealing with ethical issues involved in detecting and modeling a wider range of information sources (e.g., information from novel sensing devices, ambient intelligent features) that may affect learning · Management of large, open, and public datasets for educational data mining · Agent-based learning environments and virtual pedagogical agents · Open corpus personalized learning · Collaborative and group learning · Adaptive technologies to orchestrated classroom Learning · Personalized teachers awareness and support tools · Multimodal learning analytics to personalize learning · UMAP aspects in specific learning solutions: educational recommender systems, intelligent tutoring systems, serious games, personal learning environments, MOOCs · Wearable technologies and augmented reality in adaptive personalized learning · Processing collected data for UMAP: educational data mining, learning analytics, big data, deep learning. · Semantic web and ontologies for e-learning · Interoperability, portability, and scalability issues · Case studies in real-world educational settings · New methodologies to develop user-centered highly personalized learning solutions Track 6 - Privacy And Fairness Chairs: Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, bartk(a)clemson.edu Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, aimeur(a)iro.umontreal.ca Adaptive systems researchers and developers have a social responsibility to care about their users. This involves building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, and protect users' privacy. We invite papers that study, in the context of UMAP, the topics of privacy (as well as innovative means to resolve privacy problems through algorithms, interfaces, or other technical or non-technical means), fairness (covering the spectrum from algorithmic fairness to social implications of adaptive systems), and transparency (as a concept of system usability as well as a means to resolve problems with privacy and fairness). Beyond this we encourage authors to submit to this track any work that ascribes to or advances the general idea of "adaptive systems that care". Privacy topics: · Analysis of privacy implications of user modeling · Privacy compliance · Algorithmic solutions to privacy · Architectural solutions to privacy · Interactive solutions to privacy · Usable privacy for adaptive systems · User perceptions of privacy in UMAP applications · Studies of users' privacy-related behaviors in UMAP applications · Descriptions or evaluations of privacy-settings user interfaces · Privacy prediction / personalization · User-tailored approaches to privacy · Privacy education for user modeling · Modeling of data protection and privacy requirements · Economics of privacy and personal data · Measuring privacy Fairness topics: · Ethical considerations for user modeling · UMAP applications for underrepresented groups · Cultural differences (e.g. culture-aware user modeling) · Bias and discrimination in user modeling · Imbalance in meeting the needs of different groups of users · Balancing needs of users versus system owners · Ethics of explore/exploit strategies or A/B testing · 'Filter bubble' or 'balkanization' effects · Enhancing/embracing diversity in user modeling · Algorithmic methods for increasing fairness · User perceptions of fairness · Measuring fairness Transparency topics: · User perceptions of transparency · Transparent algorithms · Interface innovations that increase transparency · Explanations for transparency · Visualizations for transparency · Adaptive systems for self-actualization · (User-centric) evaluations of methods that increase transparency · Measuring transparency Track 7 - Personalized Music Access Chairs: Markus Schedl, University of Linz, markus.schedl(a)jku.at Nava Tintarev, TU Delft, n.tintarev(a)tudelft.nl Music access systems (e.g., search, retrieval, and recommendation systems) have experienced a boom during the past decade due to the availability of huge music catalogs to users, anywhere and anytime. These systems record information on user behavior in terms of actions on music items, such as play, skip, or playlist creation and modification. As a result, an abundance of user and usage data has been collected and is available to companies and academics, allowing for user profiling and to create and improve personalized music access. This track addresses unsolved challenges in this area relating to user understanding and modeling, personalization in recommendation and retrieval systems, modeling usage context, and adapting interactive intelligent music interfaces. This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners for the latest research on? user modeling and personalization for finding, making, and interacting with music. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Personalized music preference elicitation and preference learning · Psychological modeling of music listeners (e.g., personality, emotion, etc.) · Subjective perceptions of music (e.g., similarity, mood, tempo) social and cultural aspects of listening behavior (e.g., for group recommenders) · Applications for personalized music consumption and creation · Personalized playlist generation and continuation (e.g., sequences and transitions) · Personalized music interaction and interface paradigms (e.g., visualization, VR) · Explainability, transparency, and fairness in personalized music · Systems user-centric performance measures (e.g., diversity, novelty, serendipity, etc.) · Datasets (including benchmarks) for personalizing music retrieval and recommendation Track 8 - Personalized Health Chairs: Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen, trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com David Elsweiler, University of Regensburg, david(a)elsweiler.co.uk Growing health issues and rising treatment costs mean that technological systems are increasingly important for global health. Personalised systems, tailored to the needs and behaviours of individual patients, are one of the promising approaches to health promotion by encouraging lifestyle change, managing treatment programmes and providing doctors and other healthcare providers with detailed individualized feedback. The challenges to developing such systems, which model user needs and preferences, as well as appropriate medical knowledge to provide assistance and recommendations are plentiful. The diverse technologies which could potentially feature in solutions are equally vast, ranging from AI systems to sensors, from mobile computing, augmented reality and visualization, to mining the web or other data streams to learn about health issues and user behaviour. In this track we invite scholars working in these or related areas to contribute to the discourse on how technology can promote health. This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open research problems, solid solutions, latest challenges, novel applications and innovative research approaches and in doing so to strengthen the community of researchers working on Personalized Health and attract representatives from from diverse scholarly backgrounds ranging from computer and information science to public health, epidemiology, psychology, medicine, nutrition and fitness. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Algorithms and Recommendation Strategies to increase health · Mobile health · Quantified self · Applied data analytics and modeling for health · Health risk modeling and forecasting · Systems for Preventative Measures · Medical Evaluation Techniques · Domain Knowledge Representation · Behavioral Interventions: Persuasion/Nudging/Behavioral Change · HCI, Interfaces and Visualisations for health · Regulations and Standards · Human/ Expert-in-the-Loop · Gamification and Serious Games · Privacy, Trust, Ethics · Datasets SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers should be submitted through EasyChair: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… The ACM User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP) 2019 Conference will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the ACM UMAP series, each paper will have three reviews by program committee members and a meta-review presenting the reviewers' consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs. Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style, peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of UMAP and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. For both long papers and short paper submissions, it is not required to anonymize the manuscripts, i.e., ACM UMAP will apply a single-blind reviewing process. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn't make the acceptance cut, will be directed to the poster session of the conference and will be invited to be resubmitted as posters. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Please note that ACM changed its templates at the start of 2017, so please ensure that you use the new template and do not reuse an old template. All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) IMPORTANT DATES · Abstract: January 25, 2019 (mandatory) · Full paper: February 1, 2019 · Notification: March 11, 2019 · Camera-ready: April 3, 2019 · Adjunct proceedings, camera ready: April 15, 2018 Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). GENERAL CHAIRS · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Stephan Weibelzahl, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences, Göttingen, Germany RELATED EVENTS Separate calls will be later sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Demos, Late Breaking Results and Theory, Opinion and Reflection works, as they have different deadlines and submission requirements.

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Introducing... Good Data - Institute of Network Cultures Theory on Demand #29 now available & Amsterdam launch tomorrow (24 Jan)
by Angela Daly 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

We are delighted to announce the publication of *Good Data*, #29 in the Institute of Network Cultures Theory on Demand series. This open access book, edited by Angela Daly, S Kate Devitt and Monique Mann, contains 20 chapters from an international interdisciplinary group of authors, starting the conversation on what Good Data is and how we can progress towards a pragmatic Good Data future. These 20 chapters paint a more positive picture of what our digital lives and practices are and could be. We don’t have to accept the Bad Data dystopia we are currently in, or give up our digital tech entirely and retreat to Neo-Luddism. Another digitised world is possible (and necessary), and *Good Data* shows us a glimpse of what and how it could be. The book can be found here for free download (in various formats): http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-29-good-data/ The Institute of Network Cultures has published a series of blogposts from *Good Data *authors summarising their Good Data interventions, which can be found here: http://networkcultures.org/blog/ *If you happen to be in Amsterdam NL tomorrow (Thursday 24 January), join *Good Data* editor Monique Mann and a selection of *Good Data * authors for the official launch party, from 17:00/5pm @ Spui25. * *We will be organising more launch events in more locations over the coming months.*

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RA/Postdoc position in systems & security engineering at the University of Cambridge
by Christopher Norval 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Hello, We have a position available in systems & security engineering at the University of Cambridge. The role is to work on technical means that assist systems/data security, privacy, trust, audit, explainability, management and control in distributed environments (such as the Internet of Things, automated/ML-driven systems, etc). The position is part of the Compliant & Accountable Systems group, an interdisciplinary research team that looks at better aligning technology with legal concerns. From the technical aspect this includes designing and building mechanisms for improving transparency, trust and control. The deadline is the 28th January, 2019. Please see here for further details and to apply: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/19930/ For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Jat Singh: (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~js573) Many thanks

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Tripadvisor permission for harnessing and analysing data
by Ioannis S Pantelidis 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Dear Colleagues Has anyone had any luck getting permission from Tripadvisor to harness and analyse reviews from their site? It would be good to know as I have written to them a couple of times but my letters seem ignored. If there are any hints and tips you are willing to share to obtaining permission or if you have discovered something in their terms that allows academics to utilise the data that would be awesome too. Thank you in advance Ioannis ‹ Dr Ioannis S. Pantelidis FIH - Principal Lecturer School of Sport and Service Management University of Brighton, Darley Road, Eastbourne, BN20 7UR tel: +44 1273 64 4748 email: isp12(a)brighton.ac.uk <applewebdata://105BACA1-DBE3-44CB-BBF8-001D2AD62776/isp12@brighton.ac.uk> ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ Latest book 2018: Food and Beverage Management 6th Edition https://www.routledge.com/Food-and-Beverage-Management-6th-Edition/Davis-Lo ckwood-Alcott-Pantelidis/p/book/9781138679313 _______________________________________________CHME Annual Research Conference 21st-24th May 2019 at University of Greenwich https://www.gre.ac.uk/bus/events/chme http://www.chme.org.uk <http://www.chme.org.uk/> _____________________________________ THR Journal: http://thr.sagepub.com <http://thr.sagepub.com/> Menu Museum: http://www.menumuseum.eu <http://www.menumuseum.eu/> ___________________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this email! ___ The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward. > ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx

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CfP Special issue of Internet Histories on 'Legacy Systems'
by Michael Stevenson 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Dear AOIR colleagues, Anne Helmond and I are very excited to announce this special issue of Internet Histories, and we would really appreciate it if you’ll consider sending in an abstract and/or forwarding this call to colleagues and graduate students who may be interested (abstract deadline 22 March). The special issue is closely connected to our work organizing the upcoming RESAW conference “The Web That Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections,” which you can learn more about here: http://thewebthatwas.net/ <http://thewebthatwas.net/>. Kind regards, Michael Stevenson Call for Papers: Legacy Systems Special issue of Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society Special issue editors: Michael Stevenson and Anne Helmond (University of Amsterdam) What are the legacy systems, technological or otherwise, that inform the contemporary digital media landscape? What early computer networks, outdated software, platforms, programming languages, standards, dissolved companies, and forgotten developer and user communities continue to exert influence on how we produce and experience digital culture? How might we conceptualize forms of continuity and change that, while not unique to internet histories, nonetheless capture what Megan Ankerson (following Lucy Suchman) describes as historically specific, techno-social processes of configuration and reconfiguration? Similar questions revolve around how our access to internet histories has been configured: how do past technologies, pre-existing legal frameworks and early imaginaries of the internet continue to enable and constrain web archiving practices and the methods we develop to study web archives? In short, how does the internet’s past operate in the present? In computing, a legacy system refers to seemingly obsolete technology that remains in use. Deemed too expensive to replace or otherwise resistant to wholesale change, a legacy system formats present action according to a logic stemming from a prior historical moment. Legacy systems can be thought of as outdated technologies that impose artificial constraints on the future, however for this special issue we are particularly interested in how such techno-social configurations carry the past forward. What histories are lurking behind today’s systems and software, standards and protocols, genres and practices? The concept also connects to a growing interest in studying practices of maintenance and repair. What efforts have sustained supposedly obsolete technologies, products, forums and platforms? We invite submissions that relate explicitly or implicitly to the concept of legacy systems, either in its technical or metaphorical uses, and that also fit within the journal’s general scope. In particular we seek articles that combine historical research with theoretical or methodological reflection, however we are certainly open to submissions that do one or the other. The special issue is inspired by The Web That Was, the third bi-annual RESAW conference to be held at the University of Amsterdam (NL) from June 18-21, 2019 (http://thewebthatwas.net/ <http://thewebthatwas.net/>). Topics may include, but are not limited to: * Legacies of past technologies, software, standards, products, platforms, companies or communities; * Legacies of previously existing cultures of media and technological production; * Legacy programming languages, standards, products, forums, platforms, etc. that remain in use, as well as the maintenance and repair work that sustains them; * Reflections on the social shaping of archived content as well as methods for platform and app histories; * Methods for examining digital media objects that resist archiving; * Approaches to examining discontinued web platforms and communities. Submissions Abstracts of a maximum of 750 words should be emailed to Michael Stevenson and Anne Helmond (specialissue(a)thewebthatwas.net <mailto:specialissue@thewebthatwas.net>) no later than 22 March 2019. Authors of accepted abstracts are invited to submit an article, and notification about acceptance will be sent by 12 April 2019. Please note that acceptance of abstract does not ensure final publication as all articles must go through the journal's usual review process. Time schedule 22 March 2019: due date for abstracts 12 April 2019: notification of acceptance 1 September 2019: accepted articles to be submitted for review More information on Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rint20 <https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rint20>

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ICA pre-conference on Controlling Bits and Systems: The Global Future of Privacy, Technology and Public Policy in AI
by Michael T Zimmer 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Hello, AoIR. Not to be confused with the iConference pre-conference workshop I recently shared (that’s at https://networkedprivacy2019.wordpress.com/) I’m back to announce an ICA pre-conference on "Controlling Bits and Systems: The Global Future of Privacy, Technology and Public Policy in AI”. This pre-conference is hosted at the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law Center, and will be held on May 24, 2019 as part of the International Communication Association’s (ICA) annual conference in Washington, DC. Details at: https://ica19privacy.wordpress.com/ and below: Michael ----- Controlling Bits and Systems: The Global Future of Privacy, Technology and Public Policy in AI<https://ica19privacy.wordpress.com/> ICA 2019 Preconference | May 24, 2019 | Washington, DC Overview We are hosting a full-day pre-conference workshop on May 24, 2019 as part of the International Communication Association’s (ICA) annual conference<https://www.icahdq.org/page/2019Conference> in Washington, DC. The workshop is co-sponsored by ICA’s Communication & Technology Communication Law & Policy Divisions, the Electronic Information Privacy Center (EPIC), and the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. Situated in the heart of national policy making, the workshop will be and will be held at the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law<https://www.georgetowntech.org/>, just steps away from the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall. The pre-conference will focus on the intersection of privacy, technology, and policy, and will bring together experts from across multiple disciplines to address emerging challenges. In particular, our aim is to unpack the privacy and policy implications of emerging technological AI systems that increasingly pervade our public and private lives. These include algorithmic decision-making, machine learning, big data, and autonomous systems. Background: Privacy is a central and contested concept in global communication. Over the second half of the 20th century, privacy came to mean control of one’s personal information. Though privacy is never easy no matter its definition and practice, control strains under the weight of the realities of 21st century digital life. International strife around who controls information and how that control leads to power has generated interesting and global discussions. We seek to take advantage of both the location and theme of the conference by: 1) unpacking the perspectives and approaches policymakers and policy actors take, nationally and globally; 2) critique and provoke perspectives and inspire new angles and outside-the-box thinking; and 3) create plans of action to develop meaningful research in privacy, technology, and public policy that address the emerging landscape of AI systems. There is significant need and demand for scholarship to help understand and prevent the challenging issues that have presented in the past few years including data privacy and consent in social computing environments, government surveillance, algorithmic bias, and ubiquitous location tracking via mobile devices. This demand is situated within complicated global politics, as well as complex and rapidly changing technical environments. Additionally, there is an ongoing demand from policy makers and legislative professionals to learn from and be guided by emerging research scholarship. Because of overwhelming datafication efforts, privacy today often means digital privacy and cannot be considered without attention to the design, systems, markets, players, and incentives within which privacy is conceptualized and practiced. The event will take meaningful steps toward meeting the demand present in Washington. This pre-conference will be a cross-disciplinary gathering, addressing both national and global issues in privacy technology policy and law, and co-sponsored by ICA’s Communication & Technology and Communication Law & Policy Divisions, the Electronic Information Privacy Center (EPIC), and the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. As such, the preconference advances the ICA 2019 conference theme, “Communication Beyond Boundaries,” by furthering cross-disciplinary investigation of privacy, technology, policy and communication, and considering these issues on a global scale. Participate To participate in this pre-conference, please submit an application through this Google Form<https://goo.gl/forms/YSyu1z8mCxdi2oB53>. Applications are due by March 1, 2019. To register for this pre-conference through ICA, follow this link<https://www.icahdq.org/event/ControllingBits_Preconf2019>. Registration for the pre-conference will close on May 3, 2019. Pre-Conference Details In this preconference workshop we aim to unpack the privacy and policy implications of emerging technological ecosystems. This year, we will focus specifically on emerging issues in AI systems, including algorithmic decision making, machine learning, big data, and autonomous systems. We will convene a cross-section of policymakers, scholars, journalists, technologists, and advocates to identify key emerging issues and policy needs. We will begin the day with keynotes and panels from invited guests in law and policy, followed by highly interactive discussions of research, and identification of research and policy agendas. All participants will contribute to making this workshop dynamic and fruitful. There are several possible ways to contribute: * Lightning talks: Speakers will provide brief (3-minute) provocations to get attendees to consider, critique, and counter-narrate critical privacy and technology issues in AI, both nationally and globally. Lightning talks focus on one key point within the scope of this pre-conference topics (privacy and policy implications of emerging AI ecosystems –algorithmic decision-making, machine learning, big data, autonomous systems). This can be an idea, successful project, a cautionary story, collaboration invitation, or quick demonstration. Interested speakers should submit one proposal in the participation form. The proposal must include: title, author name, short biography, five keywords, and a short description of the planned talk. * Lunch discussion animators: Animators will facilitate the large group lunch discussion, help to critique challenges, and identify key topics from the lightning talks and panel sessions for further discussion. * Working session group animators: These animators will facilitate discussion among five working groups centering on specific research projects and policy agendas. * Recorders: Recorders are charged with taking notes during the sessions using a shared document. Registrants are asked use the form below to indicate the role(s) in which they are interested. Please contact us with any questions at privacy(a)law.georgetown.edu<mailto:privacy@law.georgetown.edu>. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu<mailto:zimmerm@uwm.edu> t: @michaelzimmer w: www.michaelzimmer.org<http://www.michaelzimmer.org>

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CfP ECREA Mid-Year Section Conference: Infrastructures and Inequalities: Media industries, digital cultures and politics
by Anne Kaun 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Infrastructures and Inequalities: Media industries, digital cultures and politics Call for Papers ECREA Mid-Year Section Conference 21-22 October 2019, University of Helsinki, Finland Joint Conference of three ECREA Sections: Communication and Democracy; Digital Culture and Communication; and Media Industries and Cultural Production Abstract Deadline 1 June 2019 Confirmed keynote speakers: * Lisa Parks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Kaarina Nikunen, University of Tampere In a turn to ‘infrastructuralism’ (Peters 2015), media and communication scholars are increasingly attentive to the materialities and politics of the technological, organisational and cultural infrastructures that underpin media today. Platforms, data centres, software, but also new forms of organising cultural production and labour, shape the politics of digital cultures and transform the media industries. Digital and media infrastructures have become elemental to everyday life. They are significant in reproducing existing social and cultural inequalities, as well as creating new power struggles. As digital/media infrastructures unfold in everyday life, they bring challenges across multiple domains, from the foundations of social justice to the industrial structures underpinning our everyday interactions with media and communication systems. This conference aims to address the politics and inequalities that emerge, as technological and media industries adopt, dismantle and transform infrastructures to channel and process communication flows. Media infrastructures (broadly) operate under different and uneven conditions that configure media labour, media production, and the politics of communication and access (Starosielski and Parks 2015). This conference seeks to examine digital/media infrastructures and inequalities from an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective, inviting papers to interrogate the significance of the ‘infrastructural turn’ in media and communication studies to our understanding of media industries, democracy and digital cultures. During this joint-ECREA section conference, we aim to engage with questions concerning inequalities and the infrastructures of digital culture, media industries and (digital) democracy through addressing topics such as (but not limited to): * The value, significance and relevance of infrastructure studies to media industry studies, the study of media and democracy, as well as digital culture * The industries and labour that operate and control specific technological media infrastructures, such as data centres, cloud computing, cable/satellite networks, content delivery networks * The politics and power dynamics of digital/media infrastructures * The significance of digital/media infrastructures in everyday life, especially related to the reproduction of social inequalities * The impact of digital/media infrastructures on culture, society, politics and democracy * The impact of digital/media infrastructures on media labour and cultural production * The organisational and cultural infrastructures of the media industries * Experiences and affective relationships that emerge in connection with media infrastructures * Forms of logistical media * Temporalities of media infrastructures * Emerging questions for the foundations of social justice in the digital media infrastructural turn Submission details Please submit a 300-word abstract for individual proposals. Panel proposals should include a 300-word panel rationale plus individual 200 word abstracts from a minimum of four speakers. All abstracts for individual as well as panel proposals should be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=infrastructuresandin Deadline for submission is 1 June 2019. Notifications of acceptance will be issued by 30 June 2019. Registration and Fees Early bird registration €100 (until 12th August) Early bird reduced student fee €50 (until 12 August) Full fees €120 (to be paid until the 15th of September) Reduced student fee €60 (to be paid until the 15th of September) For more information and enquiries, contact: Julia Velkova, University of Helsinki at julia.velkova(a)helsinki.fi<mailto:julia.velkova@helsinki.fi> Anne Kaun, Södertörn University at anne.kaun(a)sh.se<mailto:anne.kaun@sh.se> Sander de Rieder, University of Ghent at sander.deridder(a)ugent.be<mailto:sander.deridder@ugent.be> Scientific Committee: Ysabel Gerrard, University of Sheffield Catherine Johnson, University of Huddersfield Ana Jorge, Research Centre for Communication and Culture, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Anne Kaun, Södertörn University Maria Michalis, University of Westminster Christina Neumayer, IT-University of Copenhagen Sander de Rieder, University of Ghent Emiliano Treré, University of Cardiff Julia Velkova, Consumer Society Research Centre, University of Helsinki

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Deadline approaching: 4S Open Panel No. 28: Counter-Hegemonic Epistemologies as Innovation and/or Contestation
by Yvonne Eadon 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Dear AioR community, Apologies for cross-posting. This is a call for contributions to 4S Open Panel No. 28: Counter-Hegemonic Epistemologies as Innovation and/or Contestation. <https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/> The official call can be found below. This open panel could include papers on a myriad of subjects having to do with different systems of knowledge coming up against one another, such as the following: - Silences, Imaginaries, Ethics, and Mistrust: Identifying and Interacting with Suspicious Researchers in Archives - Pharmacological Self-Experimentation: How do techniques of self-quantification shape popular discourses of wellness? - Indigenous knowledge systems and their relationship to museums' institutionalized forms of coloniality - Looking to Black Mountain College for pedagogical innovation in arts education - Ghost hunting: pseudoscientific methods in the post-truth era Submissions are due on February 1, 2019. Please contact the organizers Yvonne Eadon (UCLA), ymeadon(a)gmail.com; and James Hodges (Rutgers) James.hodges(a)rutgers.edu with any questions. "Resistance to dominant modes of thinking, knowing, and doing can take a variety of forms– and often results in the production of new epistemological communities of practice. The counter-hegemonic epistemologies of conspiracy theorists, self-experimenters, citizen scientists, marginalized and oppressed communities, and members of many other knowledge domains frequently embody narratives and ways of knowing that run against the dominant paradigms of their social and historical contexts. Thomas Kuhn’s work on paradigm shifts is just one example of the turmoil around shifts in dominant scientific epistemology. In many cases, critical or disruptive epistemologies are met by those in power with skepticism and even fear. This open panel calls for case studies addressing counter-hegemonic epistemologies in the fields of history of science and technology, as well as STS, information studies, education, media studies, and other relevant disciplines. We are particularly interested in research that brings a comparative historical perspective to bear on the continuously contested nature of dominant knowledge systems. Some points to consider could be: how have specific counter-narratives affected the dominant discourses in the fields that they challenge? Alternatively, how do dominant discourses overpower counter-hegemonic epistemologies? What kinds of contexts does this happen in, and what are the social, political, and historical implications of such contestation? We welcome submissions that address communities including but not limited to alternative education, decolonial science and technology, clandestine chemistry, whistleblowing, harm reduction, and radical politics. By bringing such disparate ways of knowing into contact, our panel aims to build towards a robust account of the innovation and contestation that prevail among counter-hegemonic epistemological communities." *If you would like to submit, please visit the 4S website and upload your 250-word abstract to 4S Open Panel No. 28: Counter-Hegemonic Epistemologies as Innovation and/or Contestation. <https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/> *The deadline is February 1, 2019. We look forward to your contributions! -- Yvonne M. Eadon Information Studies Doctoral Student UCLA

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SASE Call for Papers: Work and the feeling of the future
by Wissinger, Elizabeth Anne 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Dear AoIR folks, Please see our CFP deadline January 28th. Come to NYC this summer! We are interested in your work. Details below: Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics - SASE The New School - New York City, USA, 27-29 June 2019 Abstract submission deadline: 14 January 2019 EXTENDED TO 28 JANUARY 2019 —————————— WORK AND THE FEELING OF THE FUTURE What cannot be fathomed may be felt. This panel will focus on how the nature of what the future holds may be enfolded in the present in registers that cannot necessarily or completely be articulated: the registers of bodies, emotions, affect, sensations, spaces, capacities, and the virtual. We are interested in bringing together scholars whose work examines the way in which the feeling of the future exists in the work and labor of the present. This includes especially how the feeling of the future defines and reconfigures inequalities, along the lines of class, gender, sexuality, race or ethnicity, or along other lines, and thereby impacts what is experienced as possible/not possible and for whom, and what solidarities are formed/not formed. All methodological and conceptual approaches are welcome. We hope to bring together scholars from multiple disciplines who share a common interest in the areas of what may be felt, to consider how our training and trajectories as researchers may lead to differing conceptualizations of these topics, but also to see what kinds of overlaps and compatibilities are generated by a more concrete concern with issues of work and labor. Eventual organization of sessions will reflect the papers submitted, but potential themes for panels and papers include: * Ways in which the future may be felt but not fathomed in work and labor * The effects of digital technologies and platforms on learning to labor, especially embodied and emotional aspects of labor * The effects of digital technologies and platforms on what embodied labor is * New forms of division and segmentation in labor markets on the basis of what is and can be felt, or affected, or embodied * Imaginaries or creative/artistic visions of alternatives to work or the rejection of work * The effects of politics and programs of austerity on the feelings of work (in any area, but notably including work in universities) * The meaning and impact of movements such as #MeToo in relation to workplace cultures and the organization of work —————————— ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION - Abstracts for submissions to mini-conferences should be no longer than 1000 words. All submissions need to include 3 key words. - Submission is through the SASE website: https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/#submissions —————————— CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Ariel Ducey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada. Her research centers on issues of responsibility, ethicality, knowledge, and emotions in the institutions and practices of health care and medicine. Her book, Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training (Cornell 2009), examined the creation and justification of a billion-dollar industry for training, upgrading, and multiskilling unionized, frontline health care workers in New York City, in the midst of widespread restructuring of the health care sector. She also published two book chapters on affective and caring labour in this training industry. More recently, she worked for several years with an interdisciplinary research group based at the University of Toronto examining the processes around medical device adoption, regulation, and surveillance in Canada. Her current research, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, focuses on pelvic floor surgery and the adoption of new devices and techniques into surgery, including transvaginal mesh. Karen Gregory is a digital sociologist, ethnographer, and lecturer in the department of sociology at the University of Edinburgh and Programme Director of the MSc in Digital Society<http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/prospective/taught_masters/a_g/msc_in_di…>. Her current research explores the possibilities for solidarity in a digital economy, conducting interviews among Deliveroo riders in Scotland. Before coming to Edinburgh, Karen was a lecturer in Division of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at The City College of New York, where she developed and ran the City Lab, a digital collaboration that brought faculty together to develop and highlight digital resources and support for writing, research, communication. She is co-editor of Digital Sociologies (Policy Press, 2016) and her work has appeared in American Behavioral Scientist, Triple C: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique, The Sociological Review, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Elizabeth Wissinger is a Professor of Fashion Studies and Sociology. She is a faculty member of the Masters of Arts and Liberal Studies program at the Graduate School and University Center and the Department of Social Sciences at BMCC/CUNY. She has published and spoken about fashion, technology, and embodiment, in the U.S. and internationally. Her book, This Year’s Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour (NYU 2015), tracks how emerging technologies shape the demand for varying bodily ideals, which fashion models promote by doing “glamour labor,” the work to appear as attractive, exciting, and cool in person as one’s curated and filtered online self. Her current research focuses on how the coming fusion of wearable technologies with biotech are impacting gender, data privacy, and embodiment. —————————— GENERAL INFORMATION - Conference website: https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/#general <https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/#general> - Mini-Conference Themes: https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/#mini <https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/#mini> —————————— IMPORTANT DATES - 28 January 2019: Abstract submission deadline - Mid-February 2019: Notification of acceptance - 27-29 June 2019: SASE Annual Meeting in New York Elizabeth Wissinger PhD ++++++++++++++++++++ Data & Society Affiliate (www.datasociety.net<http://www.datasociety.net/>) @datasociety Professor of Fashion Studies Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, Fashion Track: http://fashioncuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu<http://fashioncuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/> @CUNYfashion Professor of Sociology BMCC Department of Social Science Room N651S 199 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007 212 220-8000 x7459<tel:212%20220-8000%20x7459> @betsywiss the rest of it: www.elizabethwissinger.com<http://www.elizabethwissinger.weebly.com/>

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The Great iPRES 2019 Digital Preservation Bake-Off is looking for YOUR favourite ingredients and recipes!
by Natalie Harrower 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Ever wonder how workflows are implemented in other repositories? Do you have a suspicion that there might be a perfect tool for your specific type of content and problem out there, but you haven’t found it yet? iPRES 2019 has the right session for you and needs your input! The Great Digital Preservation Bake-Off This year, iPRES 2019 will bring you the Great Digital Preservation Bake-Off. The Bake-Off is THE chance for vendors & developers to present – and curious digital preservation minds to inquire – how tools fare in comparable situations. We are really looking forward to hear the community’s input – your challenges, questions and suggestions will be the ingredients and recipes to a great event! Read all about the Bake-Off – and how we need your input – inMichelle Lindlar’s blog<https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=6600&d=mJzH3BkoGpDbF1riEXxKymb5SkOC9yrJjT…> on the iPRES 2019 web site. Want to tell us what you need right now? Then go straight to the survey<http://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=6600&d=mJzH3BkoGpDbF1riEXxKymb5SkOC9yrJjTT…> on http://bit.ly/gdpbo-community-feedback<http://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=6600&d=mJzH3BkoGpDbF1riEXxKymb5SkOC9yrJjTT…>. Thank you! The iPRES 2019 Team _______________ Dr. Natalie Harrower Director, Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy n.harrower(a)ria.ie<mailto:n.harrower@ria.ie> | @natalieharrower www.dri.ie<http://www.dri.ie> | @dri_ireland The Academy is subject to the FOI Act 2014, the Data Protection Acts 1988-2003 and 2018, GDPR (EU 2016/679) and S.I. No. 336/2011, EC Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations. For further information see our website www.ria.ie/privacy-and-data-protection

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